Today in History

The U.S. Post Office issues a commemorative stamp featuring Sojourner Truth.

Syria withdraws its peacekeeping force in Beirut.

Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, beginning one of the most bizarre cases in FBI history.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins televised hearings on the Vietnam War.

Dan Quayle, vice president under President George H.W. Bush.

The Big Three, American, British and Soviet leaders, meet in Yalta to discuss the war aims.

The Japanese attack the Indian Seventh Army in Burma.

The United Service Organization (U.S.O.) is formed to cater to armed forces and defense industries.

Robert Coover, novelist & short story writer.

Russell Hoban, artist and writer (Bedtime for Frances, The Mouse and His Child).

French troops take the territories of Offenburg, Appenweier and Buhl in the Ruhr as a part of the agreement ending World War I.

Betty Friedan, writer, feminist, founded the National Organization of Women in 1966.

Germany decrees British waters as part of the war zone; all ships to be sunk without warning.

Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist.